Sunflowers; Chris Riddell
Martin Bailey and Kirsty Lang visit the National Gallery to see two of Van Gogh's Sunflowers; Chris Riddell on gothic fiction for children; Justin Bieber and the celebrity mugshot.
With Kirsty Lang.
Two versions of Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers have been reunited for the first time in more than sixty years. Sunflowers is one of The National Gallery's best-loved paintings and it will be shown alongside another version from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. Art critic Martin Bailey discusses what seeing the paintings side-by-side tells us about Van Gogh's methods, and why the paintings are so captivating.
In the film, Grudge Match, Hollywood heavyweights Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone star as old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. Hal Cruttenden, comedian and recent winner of Celebrity Mastermind - with, as his specialist subject, The Rocky Films - reviews.
Author and political cartoonist, Chris Riddell, discusses his gothic novel for eight year olds, Goth Girl: And The Ghost Of A Mouse, which has won the children's category for the Costa Book Awards. Chris Riddell talks about the overlap between the world of Westminster and children's books, and his love of puns and literary references - including the ghost of a mouse who says "call me Ishmael".
Following the publication of Justin Bieber's surprisingly cheerful police mug-shot, Daily Mail columnist Viv Groskop joins Kirsty to assess the art of the celebrity mug-shot.
Theatre director, Max Stafford-Clark, former Artistic Director of The Royal Court, talks about his new book, Journal Of The Plague Year. Described as a 'howl of rage' against the drastic funding cuts to his renowned theatre company, Out Of Joint, the book details Max's correspondence with the Arts Council, and he makes his case to Kirsty for public funding of the arts.
Producer: Rebecca Nicholson.
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Duration: 05:57
Grudge Match
Duration: 04:53
Chris Riddell
Duration: 06:06
Celebrity mugshots
Duration: 03:57
Max Stafford-Clark
Duration: 06:45
Main image: Sunflowers by van Gogh
Top left:聽厂耻苍蹿濒辞飞别谤蝉,听1888 Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1924聽漏 National Gallery, London
Top right:聽Sunflowers, 1889 Arles 漏 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Opposite: Twins in front of the two Sunflowers paintings
The Sunflowers exhibition, which opens at the National Gallery in London from聽25 January to 27 April 2014, offers visitors the opportunity to聽compare and contrast聽two of Vincent van Gogh's iconic 'Sunflower' paintings.聽The paintings, one owned by the National Gallery, the other by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, are two of the five versions of 'Sunflowers' that are now spread around the world (the others are currently in Tokyo, Munich and Philadelphia).Max Stafford-Clark
by Max Stafford-Clark is out now in paperback published by聽Nick Hern Books.聽Grudge Match
is in selected UK cinemas from today, certificate 12A.Chris Riddell
is out now in hardback published by聽Macmillan Children's Books.Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Martin Bailey Interviewed Guest Hal Cruttenden Interviewed Guest Chris Riddell Interviewed Guest Viv Groskop Interviewed Guest Max Stafford-Clark Producer Rebecca Nicholson Broadcast
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